EXHUMATION AT EASTBOURNE
Bodies Of Elderly Women (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 23. Detectives today accompanied gravediggers to cemeteries on the outskirts of the select south coast resort of Eastbourne to exhume the bodies of two elderly women. As a mist swirled up from the bitterly cold seafront, screens were thrown around the tombs and gravediggers began. The bodies exhumed were those of Mrs Julia Bradnum, an 85-year-old widow, who died in May. 1952, and Miss Clara Neil Miller, who died in February, 1954, at the age of 86. Permission to exhume the bodies was given after Detective Superintendent Herbert Hannam, of Scotland Yard, had led a painstaking probe into widespread rumours and gossip regarding wills. It was still dark when Superintendent Hannam drove through the deserted streets in a police car to the first cemetery. Behind him there came a sombre procession made up of a hearse and two other police cars.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28160, 26 December 1956, Page 3
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